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hetmen

hetmen is the plural of hetman.

Meaning of hetman

Noun

hetman (plural hetmans or hetmen)

  1. A Cossack headman or general.
  2. Title used by the second-highest military commander in Poland and Lithuania (15th to 18th century).

Questions about hetmen

What is hetmen the plural of?
Hetmen is the plural of hetman.

Words near hetmen in the dictionary

  1. hetmanite
  2. hetmanites
  3. hetmans
  4. hetmanship
  5. hetmanships
  6. hetmen
  7. hetness
  8. hetol
  9. Hetoumid
  10. Hetoumids
  11. hetpeak

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hetmen (page history and authors); hetman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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